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Quotes by Dramatist
"Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done."
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"I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it."
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"Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."
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"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
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"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation."
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"It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can."
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"When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain."
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"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in."
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"You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one."
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"Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny."
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"The best thing I know between France and England is the sea."
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"I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse."
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"The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages."
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"I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays."
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"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?"
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"You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself."
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"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me."
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"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something."
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"If you can run one business well, you can run any business well."
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"A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper."
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"To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked."
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"We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time."
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"The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves."
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"You told me you had destroyed it.""I was wrong. It has destroyed me."
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"One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers."
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"Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo."
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"The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages."
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"No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly."
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"The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade."
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"The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it."
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